Scientists researching in Antarctic fear the Ross Ice Shelf, the size of France, could collapse quickly, triggering a dramatic rise in sea levels, according to reports in the New Zealand press.

Seafloor sediments from beneath the Ross Ice Shelf represent an archive of warmer periods in Earth’s past. An ambitious international project aims to uncover what we can learn about our hotter ...

Maps created by combining different models of glaciers and ice sheets reveal the way water is flowing deep beneath Antarctica ...

Results are presented in the form of coherence maps, where each measurement has a spatial resolution of approximately five kilometers, and the Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) is used as a case study for more ...

The legendary Norwegian explorer, Ronald Amundsen started the journey that led him to being the first person to reach the South Pole from the Ross Ice Shelf. Similarly, the British explorers ...

Blue puddles of water were visible atop the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica after periods of record melting. Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice ...

forming floating ice shelves. These ice shelves act as keystones, stabilising the ice sheet. They’re also shrinking. The ocean melts ice shelves from below – a process known as “basal ...

Thirty eight scientists and crew will set sail today for Antarctica on NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa, with the aim of going as far south as the Ross Ice Shelf - a first for the ship. The ship, with ...

A group of 20 scientists from New Zealand - and abroad - are about to head to the bottom of the world to study the impacts of climate change on Antarctica's Ross Sea.

LAKE MICHIGAN, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- With frigid temperatures in the area, you may begin to see ice on lakeshores called shelf ice. And while the shelf ice can make for a great view, Leland Fire ...

(WNDU) - It might be a spectacle, but experts say it’s nothing to mess with. You’ve likely noticed shelf ice growing on the shores of Lake Michigan in recent weeks. It forms as the ...